Google Inc is a creating an online music store to compete with the major digital distributors such as Apple Inc and Amazon Inc. Google is not seeking to connect the biggest record labels to settle rights issues for their music. All four majors (EMI), Sony Music Group,Vivendi, and Access Industries Inc's Warner Music Group. Google will also have to implement the possibility of creating a services to combine retail sales to remote music storage....aka...cloud computing. Apple, this week, is planning to roll out their approach with ICloud to compete with Amazon's cloud service. Unlike Google or Amazon, Apple Inc secured its licensing with the four majors that let's them create a remote access music library for its clients. Google's Music Beta and Amazon Cloud Player requires users to upload the music in which they want to store. Google are still in their test phase, but they are expected to settle a license agreement soon to get the ball rolling.
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